Streamlining Rental public hearing: round one
The public hearing for the Streamlining Rental policy ran from 6 pm to 10 pm tonight, with the staff presentation, questions from council, and the first 10 speakers (out of 77). The next round will be Thursday evening at 6 pm; in four hours, it should be possible to get through 20-30 speakers. I'm speaker #11.
Reports and correspondence - so far it's 270 in support, 255 opposed
A couple highlights:
Helen Lui (speaker #2) - works in affordable housing, feasibility of two projects already badly affected by delays
Michael Mortensen (speaker #3) - talked about the need for rentals and the economics on rental projects; mentioned that he studied with Walter Hardwick, a developer
List of speakers:
17:50 Staff presentation by Edna Cho
41:00 Questions from council to staff
2:15:09 Marc White, co-chair of Seniors' Advisory Committee (wants more sweeping changes)
2:39:25 David Sander, Hollyburn Properties (support)
2:46:09 Helen Lui, affordable housing development (support)
3:00:00 Michael Mortensen, Liveable City Planning (support)
3:24:20 Michael Brown, developer (support)
3:28:30 Megan Pohanka, Catalyst Community Development (support)
3:34:55 Craig Jorgensen (recommend changes)
3:37:37 Roberta Olenick (oppose)
3:42:55 Jeremy Stone (wants more sweeping changes)
3:47:40 Melissa Lem, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (support)
3:57:50 Tyman Stewart (oppose)